Card v. Foot
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action- to recover a balance claimed to be due upon the sale of a railroad bond by the defendant for the plaintiff; brought to the Court of Common Pleas in New Haven County, and tried to the jury, upon a general denial, before Deming, J. Verdict for the plaintiff and appeal by the defendant for errors in the ruling of the court. The case is sufficiently stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtPark, C. J.
On the trial of this case in the court below the plaintiff offered evidence to prove, and claimed to.have proved, that in the spring of 1884 she put $1,060 into the hands of the defendant for him to purchase for her a first mortgage bond of $1000 of the Metropolitan Elevated Railroad Company; that he purchased the bond and delivered’ it to her and that she afterwards returned it to him for safe keeping; that in April, 1885, she purchased a house in the city of New Haven and was under the necessity of selling the bond to raise a part of the purchase money, and that she requested the defendant…
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